URFinancials Project
Project Review
Topics
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Project Scope
Project Timeline & Methodology
Project Structure
Technical Overview
Functional Overview
Change Management
Communications
Challenges and Opportunities
Questions
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Scope
 Our primary focus is the elimination of high-risk financial
information systems (FRS)
 Team to recommend opportunities for business process
improvement
 Our implementation will be based on a standard solution where
ever possible
 There will be opportunities to enhance the Chart of Accounts
(COA). Integration of COA back into interfaced systems (111) will
be evaluated on a system by system basis
 Feedback is encouraged and welcome
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Two Phase Approach
Phase I Project – Go-live July 2014
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Chart of Account Design and Integration
General Accounting and Reporting
Fund Accounting/ Post-Award Grant
Management
Accounts Payable
Phase II Project – Go-live July 2015
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Budget Development and Forecasting
Treasury
Billing and Accounts Receivable (Grant
related)
Encumbrance of Expense (still TBD)
Decommissioning of legacy systems
Timeline dependent on Workday deployment, pilot sites, and
outcome of initial stages of mobilization
Out of Scope Processes
- Purchasing
- Endowment Accounting
- Space Management
- Travel Expense
- Inventory
- Pre-Award Grant Management
- Asset Management
Focus of remaining material will be on the Phase I project
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Project Timeline & Methodology
Plan
Architect
Jun ‘12
Feb ‘13
 Team Assembly
 Charter
 High-Level Plan
 Team Training
 Kick-Off
 Initial Prototype
Configure &
Prototype
Jun ‘13
Test
Deploy
Nov ‘13
July ‘14
 Configuration
 Design Workshops Prototype
 Integrations
Discovery
 Create Test Cases  Go-Live Check-list
& Scenarios
 Production
 Unit Test, Validate  System Test
Readiness Re-view
Configuration
 User Acceptance  Go-Live
 Design Review &  Build Integrations
& Reports
Approval
 Final
 Project Plan
Configuration
Update
Prototype
Test
 Post Production
Support
 Post Project
Review
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Project Structure
Executive Steering
Committee
Ron Paprocki – Exec. Sponsor
Project Mgmt Team
Doug Wylie, John Barden
Jim Dobbertin – Project Manager
Workday Product
Advisory Group
(with Georgetown,
Brown, NYU, and Yale)
Core Project Team (Phase 1)
General
Ledger/COA
Accounts
Payable
Grant
Accounting
Kathy Strojny
/Patty Stevens
Marta Herman
Jeff Sullivan
University Finance
Advisory
Committee
Support Teams (technical, deployment,
communications, COA remediation)
Functional Advisory Groups
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Integrated Project Structure
Implementation Experience
Best Practices Knowledge
Software Configuration
Link to Developers
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Workday Overview
 Workday is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application
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Hosted by Workday
Accessed via the web
Common, non-customizable software. Best practices
Works on a 3x per year release strategy. New releases available in
production in March, July, and November each year
 Workday application is cloud based
 Broad integration requirements
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Workday – Financial Accounting
Functionality
Project Assumptions
General Ledger
- Journal Entries
- Account
Reconciliations
- Account Analysis
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Journal entry template will conform to Workday standard
Conversion of 2 years worth of journals
Interfaces connecting systems to the General Ledger will
be retained
Chart of Accounts
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Chart of accounts will be mapped to Workday data
elements
Budgets
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Budgets will be loaded into Workday, but not developed
there
Period Closing Activities
- Consolidation
- Allocations
- Repeating Entries
- Accruals
- Financial Statements
- Business Analytics
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Consolidation will include all divisions and non-FRS
entities
Reporting will be from Workday and the data warehouse
Financial Statements should be derived from chart of
accounts detail
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Workday – Post-Award Grant Mgmt
(Fund Accounting)
Functionality
Project Assumptions
Accounts Receivable
- Sponsors
- Cash Receipts
- Invoicing
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Post-Award Grants
Management
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Reporting and Analytics
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Accounts receivable for grants will be included as a part of
the Workday implementation
Better able to align letter of credit draws with real time
expenses
Fund balance summary data, and in-process transactions
manually remapped are part of the conversion
Collaborate with other universities and Workday to
enhance grant functionality
Reporting at individual grant level
Reporting will be from Workday and the data warehouse
End of ROE Process
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Workday – Accounts Payable
Functionality
Project Assumptions
Suppliers
- Supplier Requests
- Supplier Portal
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Supplier master data will be converted into Workday
Accounts Payables
- Invoices/Payables
- 1099 Processing
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Conversion of open invoices
1099-Misc processing will be performed from Workday
Banking
- Settlement
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Payment to suppliers can be performed within Workday via
ACH and EFT payments
Reporting and Analytics
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Reporting will be from Workday and the data warehouse
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Change Management
 Structured reviews for all impacted business processes
 Business Processes alignment
 Forms and templates may have different requirements
 More on-line look-ups instead of hard copy reports
 Approvals on-line
 Identify the organizational structure
 Jobs and roles may be redefined
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Communications
 Scheduled project communication events:
 Demo Days – monthly demonstrations of standard business processes (i.e.
posting a journal entry) with open invitation
 Design Review sessions – team-led interactive reviews of design components
 University Finance Advisory Committee
 Executive Steering Committee
 Collaboration sessions with Brown, Georgetown, and other universities on
standards, best practices, and Workday functionality requests
 Extensive training opportunities and events
 Finance website will be updated frequently. Find us at:
www.rochester.edu/adminfinance/urfinancials
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Challenges & Opportunities
 SaaS application concept – no customization but based on
industry best practices
 Internal resource allocation
 Change management
 Chart of Accounts conversion
 Potential for business process change prior to software
implementation (reduce the variables required for go-live)
 In-flight development of the software
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Questions?
Role
Name
Phone
Email
Project Manager
Jim Dobbertin
275-5768
jdobbertin@finance.rochester.edu
University Controller
Doug Wylie
275-8567
dwylie@finance.rochester.edu
Associate CIO
John Barden
275-4900
john.barden@rochester.edu
G/L Team Co-Lead
Patty Stevens
785-5178
patricia_stevens@urmc.rochester.edu
G/L Team Co-Lead
Kathy Strojny
273-1349
kathleen_strojny@urmc.rochester.edu
Accounts Payable Team
Lead
Marta Herman
275-7880
mrta@finance.rochester.edu
Funds Accounting / Grant
Mgmt. Team Lead
Jeff Sullivan
275-1648
jpsullivan@finance.rochester.edu
Technical Team Lead
Doug Ryan
273-2605
doug.ryan@rochester.edu
Find us at: www.rochester.edu/adminfinance/urfinancials
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